text: * van der Waals Prize 2021 (awarded in 2022 by the 2nd International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions, ICNI-2022) 
  * RSC-SCI Award Lectureship in the Chemical Sciences (awarded in 2010 by Royal Society of Chemistry/Società Chimica Italiana)
  * Intermolecular Interactions and Structural Aspects in Organic Chemistry Award (awarded in 2008 by Società Chimica Italiana)
  * Corrado Fuortes award (awarded in 1986 by Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere)
  * Member of the Academia Europaea (since 2012)
  * Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (Elsevier, 2001 onwards); of Crystals (MDPI, 2015 onwards); of Sustainable Chemistry & Pharmacy (Elsevier, 2017-2019)
  * Topic Editor of Crystal Growth & Design (ACS) (2012 onwards)
  * Member of the International Steering Committee of the: -International Conference on Noncovalent Intereactions (ICNI) from ICNI-1 (Lisbon, Portugal; 2019) onwards; -International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ISFC) from ISFC-15 (Vancouver, Canada; 1997) onwards; -International Meeting on Halogen Chemistry (HalChem) from Halchem-V (Cagliari, Italy; 2010) onwards; -European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ESFC) from ESFC-11 (Bled, Slovenia; 1995) to ESFC-19 (Warsaw, Poland; 2019)
  * Chair of the: -21st International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (23-28 August 2015, Como, Italy); -1st International Symposium on Halogen Bonding (ISXB-1)(18-22 June 2014, Porto Cesareo, Lecce, Italy)
  * Member of the National Organizing Committee of the 6th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry (4-8 September 2016, Venice, Italy); member of the International Scientific Committee of the 2nd Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference, 14–17 May 2017, Berlin, Germany; member of the Committee of the Faraday Discussion "Halogen Bonding in Supramolecular and Solid State Chemistry", 10–12 July 2017, Ottawa, Canada
  * Coordinator of the UNESCO UNITWIN Network “GREENOMIcS - Green Chemistry Excellence from the Baltic See to the Mediterranean See and Beyond” (2017 onwards)
  * Advisor of District 2050 Governor for starting Rotary Club Morimondo Abbazia (2012), Club charter member (2013) and president (2015–16)
  * Knight of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (2022); Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (2020); Knight of Merit with Star of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (SMOCSG) (2020).